good news for. under the wing of ecuadorian president. to trounce the opposition to win reelection. and to. the streets of. protest against job cuts. and the death sentences handed down to. riots.

and much more on kerry. couldn't. breathe a sigh of relief. easily won reelection in ecuador and is currently under the country's diplomatic shield in london is expected to be afforded protection for another four years. reports. it's been an easy victory for referer korea. voters praise him for the massive social spending programs he allows despite the global financial crisis but this isn't the only thing that makes korea stand out as a leader in the international arena he has taken a firm stance against the strong u.s. influence in south america tensions reached boiling point in two thousand and eleven when he accused washington of meddling into the country's internal affairs and expelled its u.s. ambassador career referred to wiki leaks cable as a proof of america infiltrated police force this came just six months after the

country was shaken by an attempted coup by a police officer who blockaded korea in a hospital and occupied the national parliament last year the president enter the u.s. even more by granting asylum to the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange was wanted in the states for the release of classified on the climatic cables songes now residing in ecuador is london embassy so another four years in powerful one of the most vocal american latin american leaders is good news for a sunshine on the other hand it will definitely be a headache for washington as that weather is both to remain one of the major leftist powerhouses in latin america. stage and. career is a victory is proof that strong anti u.s. sentiment in many latin american countries these the pro washington opposition struggling for support. public opinion throughout latin america has grown very weary with u.s. intervention and u.k. intervention throughout the continent which explains why countries like venezuela

ecuador bolivia even argentina brazil and the crowd was a having governments are keeping very much of lou for an arm's length from the united states i would say that the opposition hardly stands a chance of winning especially since most of them to a greater or lesser degree are pro-u.s. it is however a truth of life that it will do or is a relatively small country so that it does not have that much leverage but in the case of for example mr jr son no doubt that will continue there will mean a continued support for him and his extended stay at the editorial embassy in the united kingdom well coming up we examine how the world's wealthiest country is letting down its young people purport to funds that american students are lagging far behind those of other developed countries teachers could be to blame so with us for that. ninety british sentiment has been apparent in madrid

pilot stewards and other iberia a line stuffed into the streets of the city venting their anger against job cuts. the outrage comes after parent company headquartered in london decided to cut salaries and four thousand jobs about twenty percent of the workforce this is the first five day strike that has already grounded hundreds of flights in the face a situation that will get worse by barry a merger with british airways in twenty eleven to create international airlines group let's go analysts and i gather interim rather believes it and i agee that profits from the deal. the way the the work is so high here yes see this magic that was affected between nigeria and we just there was two years ago has favored massively reduced our ways not far from us but the fact is that it is true that. the leadership of these holding is mostly british based and

they have been unable to sue to find a compromise with the spanish were forced by bland and that's the way to nice we have seen last year was mostly security of protests health care or of education where it is essential now we're seeing a more generalized anger of the system not just of the government but of the whole political system and this has to do with the with the scandals of corruption which are now of very prominent in the spanish media people are very angry about vast and what we've seen is so actually something very new in spain a very wide and deep protest that goes far beyond a state in all the problems caused by it by the siesta spirit seems to be gone through spain the iberia airlines demonstrators were supported by thousands of protesters who flooded the streets running against the government's plans to privatized public health care is the first time cities outside of the capital budget have been engulfed by protests. and

a few minutes freedom of speech versus anti semitism. the fight against racism has nothing to do with the violation of freedom of expression it is an american concept and it cannot be applied in france it's understood. censorship debate ignites in france after a court rules twitter must hand over private data uses literally posting hate speech. city or port side has been brought to a standstill by mass protests initiated by football fans several thousand activists blocked access to the railroad and ports and forced factories to shut down this follows a wave of unrest in january sparked by a death sentence is given to twenty one football fans they were found guilty of inciting last year's riot after more than seventy people dead well true as the

latest from cairo. the ultra hardcore football fans who call these acts of the radiance how upset they will escalate in the next few days if their demands a not match the story about three thousand people come to the streets of poor. basically show anger against the president and the authorities they reportedly surrounded the governor building they managed to actually get government employees on science they stopped the harvest from working and even went to the telecom buildings this however was not just the ultras the hardcore football fans who were in both other sectors got in there were students teachers who staged protests after the death of a young student over the past few weeks in clashes in port sayi and as i said government protests during dinner as well so what we're seeing really is taking quite a step towards independence from the country expressing their anger this is stretching

across different parts of the city what they're saying the reason that they're angry is on twenty six january there was this court verdict the saw twenty one courtside citizen sentenced to death after this deadly football massacre that happened last year in february and basically port saïd that people are saying this is on fast in addition they're saying that the anger all of the security forces so the way they reacted to protests by poorly following this very contentious decision saw dozens died they said that this committee forces attacked the people of poor saif with live ammunition so look at the end game here is also got to do with the reaction of the security forces off the protests following this very contentious verdicts as i said they will escalate in the next few days people are predicting violence and they want to continue to break the curfew which is on the city. continue these active disobedience possibly bringing the city to a standstill for the next week. well you can head to our tea dot com for more

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french and u.s. legislation is colliding over a case of online hate speech twitter an american company has been ordered by a french course to reveal personal data of users posting anti semitic messages. or examines the case to see if the concept of free speech should have different boundaries in different countries. two democracies stumbling over the concept of freedom the french court has called on twitter to help censor hate speech on the website in france because it violates its laws the tweeter is an american company and the american constitution sets no limits to freedom of expression given the word the french word as we wired to do that the question is how can the french enforce this judge those decision when the union of jewish students of france took the issue to paris cotton october they wanted to stop a wave of anticipated messages posted under the hashtag on bones we are a good jew it was the third most popular tagged subject at the time the number of

insulting jokes reached thousands but these people all of whom had at least once been attacked for being a jew also wanted to punish those responsible people. we don't want to prosecute or treat these people but just to draw the attention of the thirty's to such cases to let them decide whether or not it's a case of racism. or when a special twitter agreed to remove offensive content but the authors were anonymous and punished so french jews brought the popular micro-blogging site to trial the court decision in january asked the company to divulge the names of people behind the tweets the fight against racism has nothing to do with the violation of freedom of expression it is an american concept and it cannot be applied in france in the way it is understood in the us we just wanted this part of our live to obey this country's legislation which prohibits public racism but not everyone agrees if

freedom is limited they say it's no longer freedom jeremy of jewish origins himself is one of them he says greater liberty shouldn't bring more restrictions but a different approach to controlling the internet you have twitter a private company that may be acting as a judge the. citing what is legal and what is not and removing content which is censorship so i agree that this content should be combated but i don't agree that the private companies such as twitter should implement private or censorship of free speech online this is a major risk today this story has sparked road to discussion of the violations of freedom and privacy in france there are at least one hundred ninety pan-european laws allowing authorities access to internet users personal information caption web storage is and surveillance. china tomorrow although we are concerned that france the us britain and some other democratic governors are

helping to produce internet surveillance technologies for china syria libya egypt. will if they allow the governments of these countries to use it against their people is there any guarantee that france will not use it against its own people one day. with history to dispute has gone far beyond the borders of the u.s. and france and any green intrigued with the fact subsequent cases skeptics warn that france may be happy to my personal freedom slight the birthday party of liberty equality for eternity france's most famous motto and three pillars the country has been resting on since the french revolution and today they face new challenges with racism been one of them and it has many fear in whether both intolerance itself and the fight against it may see those hard fought principles swept aside. from paris. victory might taste

sweet but could smell even sweeter palestinian company creates a flow feel for the hamas rockets fall out of israel and they just. claim it's the sentiment victory is coming up. and song to find peace is a fraud is mito that retard russia. new year's celebrations on the move to the traditional t.v. or face to food surprising meetings and new adventures stories of love and love lost all russians teach foreigners to celebrate them biggest holiday of the year for must go to st petersburg by train over news you may be miracles. download the official ati application to your cell phone choose your language

stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. there are parts of the need to write that crash to earth that causing havoc in the russian urals have been found by a group of scientists every was discovered near

a day at the site where initial reports suggested the landing happened or teasing office can often who's in the region brings us more. scientists have confirms that so the tiny pieces that they found at a lake sheba cool which is around one hundred kilometers or sixty miles away from chile or parts of that exact meteor which sparked apocalyptic fears in several russian regions on friday they say that the pieces are just around one centimeter in size or less that's like a penny well just shows how massive the blast was since it's estimated that the media awaits from ten to forty tons nasa estimates that the blast was equal to around thirty bombs dropped on hiroshima so thankfully it exploded while i was still in the in the skies above and no radiation was involved nevertheless it brought it damaged damaged buildings and shattered windows the consequences can still be seen across the city like that sport arena behind me over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from these pieces of

glass flying around and for now the biggest goal and challenge is to restore the damage especially as windows in residential areas and schools since temperatures here drop below minus fifteen at night now it's already been established that this was the biggest media to hit the earth in the last one hundred years and also luckily it didn't damage any nuclear facilities in the region since that could have led to much more devastating consequences. for the first time since the second world war the us is not the largest importer and export to of goods china has taken a little questions been asked about why american commerce swimming against the tide . takes a closer look at how america's current education system can affect the economy of the future. china has just surpassed the u.s. in trade according to u.s. intelligence by twenty thirty china will surpass the u.s. in the size of its economy as well the u.s.

is still home to amazing can of asians into knowledge but will it be able to maintain its experts are looking to schools for the answer to that question internationally fifteen year olds in the u.s. are ranked twenty fifth among peers from thirty four countries in math while china tops the chart harvard published a study titled globally challenge our u.s. students ready to compete it looks at how the results in math at school can affect the nation's economic development they estimated that the results students in the u.s. showed today can cost the country seventy five trillion dollars over the next eighty years seventy five trillion dollars i spoke with professor eric from stanford university one of the authors of this study a leader in economic analysis of educational issues here's what he said this is a tremendous impact you can measure it. on terms of g.d.p. and it would in present value terms be over five times the current

g.d.p. of the united states your free could improve our schools over the next two directors i asked professor henitiuk what's the main reason behind the poor results in math and you our schools is it that the world's wealthiest nation doesn't spend enough on education he says money is not the reason this looks like it's largely an issue of the quality of the teachers in the classroom now there are so many issues about the curriculum and what's taught in the textbooks and so forth but what we've found is that the biggest influence on student achievement in our schools is the teacher in the classroom china now doubles down on science and technology at schools all the technological advancement there varies from region to region but the try. it is there and it's strong judging by the initiatives put forward by president obama in his state of the union speech washington recognizes the urgency will reward schools

to develop new partnerships with colleges and employers and create classes that focus on science technology engineering and math the skills today's employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now and will be there in the future for decades the u.s. has been a magnet for scientific genius from all over the world immigrants helped start prominent american tech companies like google yahoo intel learned instagram the u.s. can still count on the steady inflow of talents from around the globe no doubt about that but experts say it does not alleviate the urgency of growing talents at home considering how much poor math results can cost the country in the future in washington i'm going to check out. let's have a look now at some international news in brief but as well as president hugo chavez has tweeted that he is back in his home country after undergoing cancer treatment in cuba the messages of thank you the past and presently this fidel and raul castro

underwent surgery in havana in december the latest in a series of operations since he was diagnosed with cancer in twenty seven. david cameron has arrived on a three day visit to india with the largest trade delegation a british prime minister has ever assembled and his first engagement in mumbai he announced he'll simplify visa applications for indian business people and lands hot on the heels of french president francois hollande who recently spent time in india also to drum up business. of three suicide bombers dressed as policemen have attacked the office of a top politician in peshawar killing five people protests have been held across pakistan calling for more protection for the shia minority following another deadly bomb attack yesterday which left more than eighty people dead demonstrators waved flags chanted in held up signs calling for attacks against shia muslims to stop the

blasts took place in the market place in the northeastern city of quieter twenty people are still in critical condition. pope benedict the sixteenth has blessed tens of thousands of people and simply to square in one of his last appearance is as head of the catholic church there were moments of panic as worshippers try to leave through just two narrow exits left open by police eighty five year old is the first pope to resign in six hundred years stay with us for crosstalk in a few minutes where we look at his legacy and the divisions that continue to threaten the church. the hierarchy that covered up the sex scandal for years the problem too isn't it. and it's certainly they have the how are you are you ok i asked nancy jump in this is crosstalk go ahead the council of bishops has been very firm and the hierarchy about these catholic nuns for taking.

exactly the positions you're saying they should be taking and that i agree that they should be taking but it matters you seem to say that i wrote you know that some people would say some people say that the only thing that that creates a catholic church is the fact that we have a pope that we have these bishops and cardinals who get get behind closed doors and with a little puff of smoke they tell us really why duty is to be. a true faith bearing catholic. both israel and hamas may claim they were victorious in last year's gaza conflict but one palestinian company has taken the idea of the scent of victory quite literally creating a puff you named after

a rocket. has the details. the french have the eiffel tower the brits big ben and now the gazans the only symbol of pride a perfume bottle with a saint of victory perfumes always make person remember good things after we won the last war on gaza the rocket m seventy five was celebrated we are immortalized in it by naming this perfume after it and sales have reportedly rocketed excuse the pun for five years i haven't bought israeli products the moment a palestinian product comes on the market i don't hesitate to buy it but this is something special this is a symbol of our victory. in november israel gaza war the m seventy five long range missile reached as far as television for the first time in twenty years the city came under threat which is why its frequency is far from sweet to those living here i hope it doesn't smell like like

a bomb but it's funny it's nonsense. the funny side of the being of the old story it's a good idea i wish all. the films it's whether it's better to love than or should now i don't think it's funny to name a perfume after the rocket. actually i think it's sad but i think on both sides they're kind of warmongers unfortunately i mean this is the way the conflict is going on in iran on. the tel aviv is hitting back not to be outdone the government is celebrating its own latest technology the find the iron dome anti-missile defense system that's intercepted eighty seven percent of all rockets fired from gaza and so this is the israeli symbolic response a state meddle with three interceptors fired from the over the tel aviv skyline with a state emblem and the biblical message i was shield the city to save it. most of

the medals have been bought by the company rafael that's behind the anti missile shield as a thank you to its employees we are at the wharf scene but as we are perceptions we are at the war of media even here that media play the role of by diminishing the aggressiveness of the israeli response during the war because scenes and televisions are today very. vividly part of any war as opposed to all symbolism cements each side's perceived triumph over the other it's only a matter of time before this decade's long conflict erupts again into missiles in the skies. television. reports stay with us for that.

all those north korean scamps are at it again another nuclear test in north korea has made all the headlines trust me nuclear missiles are something worth being concerned over but haven't we heard this song and dance before all the way back in two thousand and two the north koreans according to the b.b.c. ruled that they have a secret weapons program and turned their young beyond nuclear reactor back on since then every once in a while a missile flies and people say the war is coming and silence then another test of some sort shock horror and then silence again north korea just uses this is a bargaining tool to get what they want and rather how wacky the north korean state may seem they understand that launching one or two missiles against united states means they probably won't even hit their target and in return their entire country will turn into ash instantly this situation really isn't cause for concern until something big changes like the us not being in a position to support south korea japan or some other dramatic event that changes the game like china gives.